Archive | Thriller and Suspense

Sophie Hannah’s new book is perfect for fans of podcasts like Serial or Up and Vanished. Fans of Netflix’s Making a Murderer will enjoy this story, as well. Unlike the true crime series’ listed above, Sophie Hannah’s new book is fictional. Still, it’s every bit as fascinating as those true crime documentaries and podcasts you’ve […]

Every Last Lie: A Gripping Novel of Psychological SuspenseEvery Last Lie by Mary Kubica is the unsettling story of love lost, lies, deceit, and the long journey one takes to find absolute truth in the face of tragedy. As the story begins, Clara’s is left on her own with her daughter and her days-old baby […]

If you miss Gossip Girl, then you should absolutely read the Reconstructing Amelia book. There’s a reason why it has landed on Bustle’s Gossip Girl reading challenge. Honestly, Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight is basically a book version of the once-popular teenage drama. The Reconstructing Amelia book has a private NYC school, a bevy of […]

I’ll just get this out of the way: I really liked Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber. In fact, I can honestly say that I haven’t whipped through a book like this since I read Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll. That’s saying a lot, because I read this book on my phone after receiving […]

So many book descriptions claim that a book has been written in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, but so few authors are able to pull off suspenseful, psychological thrillers in the same manner. With The Girl Before by JP Delaney, the author has succeeded in writing a book as […]

I have read a lot of books by Heather Graham that I really enjoy. She’s definitely one of my auto-read authors, so when I saw her newest book available as an ARC through Netgalley, I jumped on it right away. Unfortunately, Darkest Journey wasn’t my favorite of Heather Graham’s books. That’s not to say I […]

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn is the second book I’ve completed from my Blair Waldorf Book Challenge. I went into this one with pretty low expectations, given everything I’d heard from the Bookstagram community and book club friends about this particular book. Nearly everyone said that the Sharp Objects story was nowhere near as good […]

Sure, the book is called Valentine. Typical love story? Not so much. Tom Savage’s 1997 thriller is, in fact, the complete opposite of a love story. It’s filled with stalking, murder, mystery, and a twist that somehow manages to be both totally surprising and completely obvious, all at the same time. Valentine weaves together a […]

In it’s back-cover description, The Cutting Season by Attica Locke is described as “a thoughtful meditation on how America reckons it’s past with it’s future.” Sure, I definitely got that from this book. The Cutting Season tells the story of a Louisiana plantation manager who finds herself stuck in the middle of a murder investigation […]

Dark Horse was the first book I’ve ever read by Tami Hoag, and I definitely enjoyed it. The story begins with an emotionally and physically broken ex-police detective who is simply trying to get through each and every day. In order to do so, she’s turned to horses. As an adoptee of a very wealthy […]